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1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar).

Contents Events of 1982 Jan. · Feb. · March · April · May · June · July · Aug. · Sept. · Oct. · Nov. · Dec. · Undated · Ongoing Births Deaths Nobel Prizes See also · Notes · External links

Events of 1982

January

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• January 1 – ITV companies Central Absolute Television, Television South and Television South West alpha broadcasting, replacing ATV, Southern Television and Westward Television respectively.
• January 6 – William Bonin is bedevilled of getting the Freeway Killer.
• January 8 – AT&T agrees to broke itself into 22 subdivisions.^{citation needed}
• January 10 – The everyman anytime United Kingdom temperature of −27.2 °C (−17.0 °F) is recorded at Braemar, in Aberdeenshire. This equals the almanac set in the aforementioned abode in 1895 (the almanac is equalled afresh at Altnaharra in 1995).
• January 11 – Mark Thatcher, son of British Prime Abbot Margaret Thatcher, disappears in the Sahara during the Paris-Dakar Rally. He is rescued January 14.
• January 11–17 – A barbarous algid breeze sends temperatures to best almanac lows in dozens of cities throughout the Midwestern United States.
• January 13 – Shortly afterwards takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90 crashes into Washington, D.C.'s 14th Street Bridge and avalanche into the Potomac River, killing 78. On the aforementioned day, a Washington Metro alternation derails to the north, killing 3 (the system's aboriginal baleful accident).
• January 17 – Cold Sunday sweeps over the northern United States.
• January 26
  • Mauno Koivisto is adopted President of Finland.
  • Unemployment in the United Kingdom increases by 129,918 to 3,070,621, a post-war record.
• January 27 – The Garret FitzGerald government of the Republic of Ireland is defeated 82–81 on its budget; Fitzgerald announces his resignation.
• January 28 – United States Army Brigadier General James L. Dozier is rescued by the Italian anti-terrorism Nucleo Operativo Centrale di Sicurezza (NOCS) force afterwards getting captivated bound for 42 canicule by the Red Brigades.

February

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• February 1 – Senegal and Gambia anatomy a apart Senegambia Confederation.
• February 2 – The Hama massacre begins in Syria.
• February 3 – Syrian admiral Hafez al-Assad orders the army to abolition the city-limits of Harran of the Muslim Brotherhood.
• February 5 – London-based Laker Airways collapses, abrogation 6,000 abandoned cartage and debts of $270 million.
• February 9 – Japan Airlines Flight 350 crashes in Tokyo Bay due to thrust reversal on access to Tokyo All-embracing Airport, killing 24 a part of the 174 humans on board.
• February 15 – The oil platform Ocean Ranger sinks during a storm off the bank of Newfoundland, killing all 84 rig workers aboard.
• February 18 – The Republic of Ireland general election gives a addition to Fianna Fáil.
• February 19 – The DeLorean Motor Company Car Factory in Belfast is put into receivership.
• February 24
  • Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers array his 77th ambition of the National Hockey League season, breaking the antecedent almanac of 76. He array 92 goals that season, which charcoal the record.¹
  • In South Africa, 22 National Party MPs led by Andries Treurnicht vote for no aplomb in P. W. Botha.
• February 25 – The European Court of Animal Rights rules that agents who cane, belt or tase accouchement adjoin the wishes of their parents are in aperture of the Animal Rights Convention.
• February 27 – Atlanta murders of 1979-1981: Wayne Williams is bedevilled of the murdering two accouchement and is bedevilled to two afterwards life terms.

March

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• March 3 – Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom opens the Barbican Centre in London.
• March 9 – Charles Haughey becomes Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland.
• March 10
  • The United States places an embargo on Libyan oil imports, alleging Libyan support for agitator groups.
  • Syzygy: All eight planets adjust on the aforementioned ancillary of the Sun (see aswell Jupiter effect).
• March 16 – In Newport, Rhode Island, Claus von Bülow is begin accusable of the attempted annihilation of his wife.
• March 18
  • An Argentine atom metal broker raises the Argentine flag in South Georgia.
  • Mary Whitehouse's clandestine case of The Romans in Britain collapses.
• March 26 – A ground-breaking commemoration for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is captivated in Washington, DC.
• March 29
  • Royal Assent accustomed to the Canada Act 1982, ambience the date for the repatriation of the Canadian Constitution on April 17.
  • The 54th Academy Awards, hosted by Johnny Carson, are captivated at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. Chariots of Fire wins Best Picture and three added Academy Awards.

April

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• April 2 – The Falklands War begins: Argentina invades and occupies the Falkland Islands.
• April 3 – Argentina's Invasion of South Georgia
• April 6 – A blizzard aberrant in admeasurement for April depression 1–2 anxiety of snow on the northeastern United States, closing schools and businesses, abrupt traffic, and abandoning several aloft accord baseball games.
• April 17 – By Proclamation of the Queen of Canada on Parliament Hill, Canada patriates its constitution, accepting abounding political ability from the United Kingdom; included is the country's aboriginal entrenched bill of rights.
• April 23 – Dennis Wardlow, ambassador of Key West, Florida, declares the absolute "Conch Republic" for a day.
• April 24 – German accompanist Nicole wins the Eurovision Song Challenge 1982 for Germany, with the song Ein Bisschen Frieden.
• April 25 – Israel completes its abandonment from the Sinai Peninsula in accordance with the Egyptian–Israeli Accord Treaty.
• April 26 – British balance South Georgia during Operation Paraquet

May

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• May 1 – A army of over 100,000 attends the aboriginal day of the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee. The fair is kicked off with an abode by President Ronald Reagan. Over 11 amateur humans appear the fair during its 6-month run.
• May 2
  • Falklands War: The nuclear abysmal HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano, killing 323 sailors.
  • The Weather Channel affectedness on cable television for the aboriginal time.
• May 4 – Falklands War: HMS Sheffield is hit by an Exocet missile, and burns out of control; 20 sailors are killed. The abode sinks on May 10.
• May 5 – A Unabomber bomb explodes in the computer science administration at Vanderbilt University; secretary Janet Smith is injured.
• May 8 – French-Canadian antagonism disciplinarian Gilles Villeneuve is dead during condoning for the Belgian Grand Prix.
• May 12
  • Spanish priest Juan María Fernández y Krohn tries to ache Pope John Paul II with a bayonet during the latter's crusade to the altar at Fatima.
  • Braniff All-embracing Airways is declared broke and ceases all flights.
• May 21 – Falklands War: British landings sparked the Battle of San Carlos
• May 22
  • Falklands War: HMS Ardent is sunk by Argentine aircraft, killing 22 sailors.
  • International Maritime Organization (IMO).
• May 23 – Falklands War: HMS Antelope is lost
• May 24
  • Iranian troops balance Khorramshahr.
  • KGB arch Yuri Andropov is appointed to the Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• May 25 – British ships HMS Coventry and Atlantic Conveyor are sunk during the Falklands War
• May 26
  • Aston Villa wins the European Cup, assault Bayern Munich 1–0 afterwards a 69-minute ambition by Peter Withe in Rotterdam.
  • Kielder Water, an bogus basin in Northumberland, is opened.
• May 27
  • Tottenham Hotspur F.C. wins the FA Cup, assault QPR 1–0 in a replay.
  • Conservative applicant Tim Smith holds the bench of Beaconsfield in a by-election. The Labour Party applicant is approaching Prime Minister Tony Blair.
• May 30
  • Spain becomes the 16th affiliate of NATO and the 1st nation to access the accord back West Germany's acceptance in 1955.
  • Indianapolis 500: In what Indianapolis Motor Speedway historian Donald Davidson and Speedway accessible abode anchorperson Tom Carnegie afterwards alarm the greatest moment in the track's history, 1973 champ Gordon Johncock wins his additional chase over 1979 champ Rick Mears by 0.16 seconds, the abutting accomplishment to that date, afterwards Mears draws alongside Johncock with a lap remaining, afterwards abatement a acutely insurmountable advantage of added than 11 abnormal in the final 10 laps.
  • Hussain Muhammad Ershad seizes ability in Bangladesh.
  • Cal Ripken, Jr. plays the aboriginal of what eventually becomes his record-breaking bandage of 2,632 afterwards Major Accord Baseball games.

June

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• June 6
  • The 1982 Lebanon War begins: Armament below Israeli Defense Abbot Ariel Sharon access southern Lebanon in their "Operation Accord for the Galilee," eventually extensive as far arctic as the basic Beirut.
  • The United Nations Security Council votes to appeal that Israel abjure its troops from Lebanon.
• June 8
  • President Ronald Reagan becomes the aboriginal American arch controlling to abode a collective affair of the British Parliament.
  • Falklands War: British RFA Sir Galahad is destroyed during the Bluff Cove Air Attacks
  • VASP Flight 168, a Boeing 727 commuter jet, crashes into backwoods Fortaleza, killing 137.
• June 12 – A assemblage adjoin nuclear weapons draws 750,000 to New York City's Central Park. Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, and Linda Ronstadt attend. An all-embracing assemblage at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine appearance arresting accord activists from about the apple and afterwards participants advance on Fifth Avenue to Axial Esplanade for the rally.
• June 13
  • The 1982 FIFA Apple Cup begins in Spain.
  • Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia aloft the afterlife of his brother, Khalid.
• June 14 – The Falklands War ends: Formal surrender of Argentine forces.
• June 18 – Argentine aggressive absolutist Leopoldo Galtieri resigns, in the deathwatch of his country's defeat in the Falklands War.
• June 19 – The physique of "God's Banker", Roberto Calvi, administrator of Banco Ambrosiano, is begin blind below Blackfriars Bridge in London.
• June 21 – Prince William is built-in at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, West London.
• June 24 – British Airways Flight 9 suffers a acting 4-engine flameout and blow to the exoteric of the plane, afterwards aerial through the contrarily undetected ash plume from Indonesia's Mount Galunggung.
• June 25 – The Institute for Puerto Rican Policy is founded in New York City-limits to analysis and apostle for Puerto Rican and Latino association issues. In 2006, it changes it name to the National Institute for Latino Policy.
• June 30 – The Equal Rights Amendment avalanche abbreviate of the 38 states bare to pass; Phyllis Schlafly and added leaders of the Christian right yield acclaim for its defeat.

July

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• July 2
  • Larry Walters, a.k.a. Lawn Armchair Larry, flies 16,000 feet (4,900 m) aloft Long Beach, California in a backyard armchair with weather balloons attached.
  • Roy Jenkins is adopted Baton of the Social Democratic Party.
• July 3 – ASLEF alternation drivers in the United Kingdom go on bang over hours of work; they acknowledgment to plan on July 18.
• July 4 – Four Iranian diplomats are kidnapped aloft Israel's aggression of Lebanon.
• July 6 – A lunar concealment (umbral continuance 236 min and absolute continuance 106 min, the longest of the 20th century) occurs.
• July 9
  • Pan Am Flight 759 (Boeing 727) crashes in Kenner, Louisiana, killing all 146 on lath and 8 on the ground.
  • Intruder Michael Fagan visits Queen Elizabeth II in her bedchamber for a chat.
• July 11 – Italy beats West Germany 3–1 to win the 1982 FIFA Apple Cup in Spain.
• July 12 – Checker Motors Corporation ceases assembly of automobiles.
• July 15 – Geoffrey Prime, a GCHQ civilian servant, is adjourned in aegis on accuse below the Official Secrets Act 1911.
• July 16 – In New York City, The Reverend Sun Myung Moon is bedevilled to 18 months in bastille and fined $25,000 for tax artifice and cabal to arrest justice.
• July 19 – William Whitelaw, Home Secretary, announces that Michael Trestrail (the Queen's bodyguard) has accommodated from the Metropolitan Police Service over a accord with a macho prostitute.
• July 20 – The Provisional IRA detonates 2 bombs in axial London, killing 8 soldiers, acid 47 people, and arch to the deaths of 7 horses.
• July 21 – HMS Hermes, the Royal Navy flagship during the Falklands War, allotment home to Portsmouth to a hero's welcome.
• July 23
  • The International Whaling Commission decides to end bartering whaling by 1985–1986.
  • A coroner's board allotment a adjudication of suicide on Roberto Calvi, who was begin blind below Blackfriars Bridge.
  • Torrential rain and mudslides in Nagasaki, Japan abort bridges and annihilate 299.
  • On a cine set, the Twilight Zone amateur Vic Morrow and 2 adolescent actors die in a helicopter achievement accident.
• July 31 – In Beaune, France, 53 persons, 46 of them children, die in a artery blow (France's worst).

August

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• August 4 – The United Nations Security Council votes to censure Israel because its troops are still in Lebanon.
• August 7 – Italian Prime Abbot Giovanni Spadolini resigns.
• August 12 – Mexico announces it is clumsy to pay its ample adopted debt, triggering a debt crisis that bound advance throughout Latin America.
• August 13 – In Hong Kong, bloom warnings on cigarette packets are fabricated statutory.²
• August 17 – The aboriginal compact discs (CDs) are appear to the accessible in Germany.
• August 20 – Lebanese Civilian War: A bunch force acreage in Beirut to baby-sit the PLO abandonment from Lebanon. French troops access August 21, U.S. Marines August 25.

September

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• September 3 – Italian accepted Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa is dead in a Mafia ambush.
• September 5 – Iowa paperboy Johnny Gosch is kidnapped.
• September 14 – Lebanese President-elect Bachir Gemayel is assassinated in Beirut.
• September 18 – The Lebanese Christian Militia (the Phalange) kill bags of Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps with the overlooking of Israeli troops in West Beirut. The annihilation is in backfire for the assassination of pro-Israel president-elect, Bachir Gemayel, as able-bodied as several Palestinian massacres adjoin Lebanese Christians.
• September 19 – The aboriginal emoticons are acquaint by Scott Fahlman.
• September 21 – The aboriginal International Day of Peace (United Nations)
• September 23 – Amin Gemayel, brother of Bachir, is adopted admiral of Lebanon.
• September 25 – In Israel, 400,000 marchers appeal the abandonment of Prime Abbot Menachem Begin.
• September 26 – Thermals yield Australian parachutist Rich Collins up to 2,800 metres (9,200 ft) during a jump; he about blacks out due to abridgement of oxygen. He releases his capital parachute to abatement to lower ambit and acreage by his assets parachute.
• September 29 – October 1 – The 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders action if 7 humans in the Chicago breadth die afterwards ingesting capsules abstemious with potassium cyanide.

October

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• October 1
  • Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a Constructive Vote of No Confidence.
  • In Orlando, Florida, Walt Disney World opens the additional better affair park, EPCOT Center, to the accessible for the aboriginal time.
  • Sony launches the aboriginal customer compact disc (CD) amateur (model CDP-101).
• October 8 – Poland bans Solidarity afterwards accepting abeyant it on 13 December 1981.
• October 11 – The Mary Rose, flagship of Henry VIII of England that sank in 1545, is raised.
• October 13 – The Ford Sierra is launched in Europe, replacing the Ford Cortina
• October 19 – John De Lorean is arrested for affairs cocaine to clandestine FBI agents (he is afterwards begin not accusable due to entrapment).
• October 20
  • Luzhniki disaster: During the UEFA Cup bout amid FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, at atomic 63 humans are ashamed to death.
  • World Series: The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Milwaukee Brewers 6–3 in bold 7.
• October 27 – In Canada, Dominion Day is clearly renamed Canada Day.
• October 28 – The Socialist Party wins the election in Spain; Felipe González is adopted Prime Minister.

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• November 1 – The Welsh language station, S4C, launches in Wales.
• November 2
  • Channel 4, the fourth terrestrial television channel, is launched in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, with the aboriginal affairs advertisement getting the bold appearance Countdown, which is still in production.
  • United States accepted elections, 1982.
• November 3
  • A gasoline or petrol tanker explodes in the Salang Tunnel in Afghanistan, killing at atomic 2,000 people.
  • The Dow Jones Industrial Average surges 43.41 points, or 4.25%, to abutting at 1,065.49, its aboriginal best top in added than 9 years. It endure hit a almanac on January 11, 1973 if the boilerplate bankrupt at 1,051.70. The credibility accretion is the better anytime up to this point.
• November 6 – Camerun admiral Ahmadou Ahidjo resigns, replaced by Paul Biya.
• November 7 – The Thames Barrier is aboriginal about demonstrated.
• November 8 – Kenan Evren becomes the seventh admiral of Turkey as a aftereffect of architecture referandum. His above appellation was head of state.
• November 12 – In the Soviet Union, above KGB arch Yuri Andropov is called to become the accepted secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Axial Committee, afterwards the backward Leonid I. Brezhnev.
• November 13 – The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is committed in Washington, D.C., afterwards a advance to its website by bags of Vietnam War veterans.
• November 14 – The baton of Poland's banned Solidarity movement, Lech Wałęsa, is appear from 11 months of bondage abreast the Soviet border.
• November 20 – University of California, Berkeley executes "The Play" in a college football bold adjoin Stanford. Completing a absurd 57-yard alpha acknowledgment that includes 5 laterals, Kevin Moen runs through Stanford bandage associates who had anon appear assimilate the field. His touchdown stands and California wins 25–20.
• November 27 – Yasuhiro Nakasone becomes Prime abbot of Japan.
• November 28 – Representatives from 88 countries accumulate in Geneva to altercate world trade and means to plan against aspects of free trade.
• November 30 – Michael Jackson releases "Thriller", the better affairs anthology of all time.

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• December 1 – Miguel de la Madrid takes appointment as President of Mexico.
• December 2 – At the University of Utah, 61-year-old retired dentist Barney Clark becomes the aboriginal being to acquire a abiding artificial heart (he lives for 112 canicule with the device).
• December 3 – A final clay sample is taken from the website of Times Beach, Missouri. It is begin to accommodate 300 times the safe akin of dioxin.
• December 4 – The People's Republic of China adopts its accepted constitution.
• December 7 – The aboriginal U.S. execution by lethal injection is agitated out in Texas.
• December 8 – The December murders action in Suriname.
• December 12 – Women's accord beef at Greenham Common: 30,000 women authority easily and anatomy a animal alternation about the 14.5 km (9 mi) perimeter fence.
• December 13 – An convulsion (Richter Scale 6.0 magnitude) in Dhamar, arctic Yemen, kills at atomic 1,507.
• December 22 – Indian Ocean Commission (Commission de l'Océan Indien) (COI) created by Port Louis Agreement.
• December 23 – The United States Environmental Protection Agency recommends the aborticide of Times Beach, Missouri due to alarming levels of dioxin contamination.
• December 26 – Time Magazine's Man of the Year is accustomed for the aboriginal time to a non-human, the computer.

Undated

• A abrupt but astringent recession begins in the United States.
• Seattle is clearly dubbed the Emerald City afterwards a challenge is captivated to acquire a new city-limits slogan.
• George Stigler is awarded The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
• The car cast Toyota Camry is introduced.
• Dorling Kindersley, aforetime a book packager, begins publishing.
• The Commodore 64 PC is appear (over 20 amateur will be awash by 1994).
• A all-around surplus of crude oil causes gasoline prices to collapse.
• In a Gallup Poll, 51% of Americans do not acquire homosexuality as normal.
• The aboriginal China Axial Television New Year's Gala affairs starts. This affairs is watched by 1.1 billion Chinese every year.
• Number of acceptance admission university in Cameroon – 10,000.

Ongoing

• Cold War.

Births

January–March

• January 1
  • Kevin Dudley, American football player
  • David Nalbandian, Argentine tennis player
• January 4
  • Kang Hye-jeong, South Korean actress
  • Richard Logan, English footballer
• January 5
  • Janica Kostelić, Croatian skier
  • Vadims Vasilevskis, Latvian javelin thrower
• January 6
  • Eddie Redmayne, English actor
  • Gilbert Arenas, American basketball player
• January 7
  • Francisco Rodríguez, Venezuelan baseball player
  • Camilo Villegas, Colombian golfer
• January 12 – Dontrelle Willis, American baseball player
• January 13
  • Guillermo Coria, Argentine tennis player
  • Ruth Wilson, English actress
• January 14
  • Caleb Followill, American accompanist (Kings of Leon)
  • Víctor Valdés, Spanish football player
• January 15 – Benjamin Agosto, American skater
• January 17 – Dwyane Wade, American basketball player
• January 18 – Quinn Allman, American guitarist (The Used)
• January 19 – Jodie Sweetin, American actress
• January 21 – Go Shiozaki, Japanese able wrestler
• January 22
  • Liane Bahler, German able cyclist (d. 2007)
  • Jason Peters, American football player
• January 25 – Sho Sakurai, Japanese singer
• January 28 – Ainett Stephens Venezuelan television personality/model in Italy
• January 29
  • Adam Lambert, American singer
  • Heidi Mueller, American actress
• January 31 – Elena Paparizou, Greek-Swedish singer
• February 1
  • Gavin Henson, Welsh rugby abutment player
  • Iness Chepkesis Chenonge, Kenyan athlete
• February 2
  • Kelly Mazzante, American basketball player
  • Filippo Magnini, Italian swimmer
• February 3 – Vera Brezhneva, Ukrainian and Russian pop-singer and television presenter
• February 4
  • Mandisa Stevenson, American basketball player
  • Tomas Vaitkus, Lithuanian able alley antagonism cyclist
• February 5 – Kevin Everett, American football player
• February 8 – Zersenay Tadese, Eritrean continued ambit track/road active athlete
• February 9 – Ami Suzuki, Japanese singer
• February 10
  • Mon Redee Sut Txi, Malaysian athlete
  • Justin Gatlin, American athlete
• February 11 – Neil Robertson, Australian snooker player
• February 13 – Lanisha Cole, American model
• February 14 – Marián Gáborík, Czechosovakian (now Slovakia) hockey amateur (Minnesota Wild)
• February 17 – Adriano Leite Ribeiro, Brazilian footballer
• February 18 – Jessie Ward, American actress
• February 19 – Camelia Potec, Romanian swimmer
• February 22 – Kelly Johnson, American baseball player
• February 25
  • Chris Baird, Arctic Irish footballer
  • Maria Kanellis, Able Wrestler/Model
• February 28 – Andres Nuiamäe, Estonian soldier (d. 2004)
• March 2
  • Henrik Lundqvist, Swedish hockey goaltender
  • Ben Roethlisberger, American football player
  • Mike Nugent, American football player
  • Kevin Kuranyi, German soccer player
• March 3 – Jessica Biel, American actress
• March 4 – Landon Donovan, American soccer player
• March 5 – Daniel Carter, New Zealand rugby player
• March 6 – Stephen Jordan, English footballer
• March 8
  • Nicoleta Onel, Romanian gymnast
  • Kat Von D, Mexican-American boom artist
• March 9 – Paul Ballard, English television presenter
• March 10 – Kwame Brown, American basketball player
• March 10 – Katharine Isabelle, Canadian actress
• March 11 – Thora Birch, American actress
• March 15 – Bobby Boswell, American soccer player
• March 19 – Triana Iglesias, Norwegian model/Playboy Cyber Girl
• March 20 – Nick Wheeler, American artisan (The All-American Rejects)
• March 21 – Maria Elena Camerin, Italian tennis player
• March 23 – Tomasz Kuszczak, Polish football goalkeeper
• March 24 – Kenichirou Ohashi, Japanese articulation actor
• March 25
  • Danica Patrick, American chase car driver
  • Sean Faris, American actor
• March 30
  • Jason Dohring, American actor
  • Philippe Mexes, French footballer
• March 30 – Javier Garcia Portillo, Spanish footballer

April–June

• April 1
  • Andreas Thorkildsen, Norwegian javelin thrower
  • Robert Vittek, Slovakian football player
• April 2 – David Ferrer, Spanish tennis player
• April 3
  • Jared Allen, American football player
  • Kasumi Nakane, Japanese gravure idol
• April 5 – Matt Pickens, American soccer player
• April 6 – Ilan Hall, Israeli-American chef
• April 7 – Sonjay Dutt, Indian American able wrestler
• April 9 – Olimpio Cipriano, Angolan basketball player
• April 10 – Chyler Leigh, American actress
• April 13 – Nellie McKay, American singer
• April 15 – Seth Rogen, Canadian actor/comedian
• April 18 – Marie-Élaine Thibert, Canadian singer
• April 20 – Keiichiro Nagashima, Japanese acceleration skater
• April 22 – Kaká, Brazilian footballer
• April 24
  • Kelly Clarkson, American singer
  • Shayna Nackoney, Canadian synchronized swimmer
• April 25 – Monty Panesar, English cricketer
• April 26 – Nadja Benaissa, German pop singer
• April 28
  • Nikki Grahame, British absoluteness TV star
  • Donna Feldman, American archetypal and actress
• April 30 – Kirsten Dunst, American actress
• May 1 – Darijo Srna, Croatian soccer player
• May 4
  • Markus Rogan, Austrian swimmer
  • Vera Schmidt, Hungarian singer-songwriter
• May 6 – Jason Witten, American football player
• May 7 – Ákos Buzsáky, Hungarian footballer
• May 10
  • Adebayo Akinfenwa, English footballer
  • Jeremy Gable, American playwright
• May 13 – Oguchi Onyewu, American soccer player
• May 14 – Ai Shibata, Japanese swimmer
• May 15 – Veronica Campbell-Brown, Jamaican athlete
• May 17
  • Dylan Macallister, Australian soccer player
  • Tony Parker, French basketball player
• May 19
  • Kevin Amankwaah, English footballer
  • Rebecca Hall, British actress
• May 20 – Petr Čech, Czech footballer
• May 22
  • Apolo Anton Ohno, American abbreviate clue acceleration skater and actor
  • Erin McNaught, 2006 Miss Australia
• May 25 – Alexandr Ivanov, Russian javelin thrower
• May 26 – Yoko Matsugane, Japanese model
• May 29 – Ana Beatriz Barros, Brazilian model
• May 29 – Anita Briem, Icelandic actress
• June 1 – Justine Henin, Belgian tennis player
• June 3 – Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian athlete
• June 7 – Amy Nuttall, British extra and opera singer
• June 8 – Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
• June 10
  • Tara Lipinski, American amount skater
  • Princess Madeleine of Sweden
  • Leelee Sobieski, American actress
• June 11
  • Diana Taurasi, American basketball player
  • Eldar Rønning, Norwegian cross-country skier
• June 12 – Jason David, American Football player
• June 13 – Kenenisa Bekele, Etiopian long-distance runner
• June 14 – Lang Lang, Chinese pianist
• June 16 – Missy Peregrym, Canadian actress
• June 18 – Marco Borriello, Italian football player
• June 21 – HRH Prince William of Wales
• June 22 – Soraia Chaves, Portuguese extra and model
• June 23 – Joona Puhakka, Finnish diver
• June 24 – Jarret Stoll, Canadian ice hockey player
• June 25 – Mikhail Youzhny, Russian tennis player
• June 27 – Takeru Shibaki, Japanese actor
• June 30 – Lizzy Caplan, American actress

July–September

• July 1 – Hilarie Burton, American extra and VJ
• July 5 – Alberto Gilardino, Italian footballer
• July 7 – Jan Lastuvka, Czech footballer
• July 8
  • Sophia Bush, American actress
  • Hakim Warrick, American basketball player
• July 9 – Sakon Yamamoto, Japanese racecar driver
• July 10 – Sebastian Mila, Polish footballer
• July 12 – Antonio Cassano, Italian footballer (soccer player)
• July 18 – Priyanka Chopra, Indian extra and adorableness queen
• July 19 – Jared Padalecki, American actor
• July 24 – Anna Paquin, Canadian-born actress
• July 25 – Brad Renfro, American amateur (d. 2008)
• July 30
  • James Anderson, English cricketer
  • Yvonne Strahovski, Australian actress
• August 2 – Hélder Postiga, Portuguese footballer (soccer player)
• August 5 – Lolo Jones, American clue and acreage athlete
• August 6 – Kevin van der Perren, Belgian amount skater
• August 7
  • Yana Klochkova, Ukrainian swimmer
  • Marco Melandri, Italian motorcycle racer
• August 9 – Tyson Gay, American athlete
• August 10
  • Devon Aoki, American supermodel and actress
  • Shaun Murphy, English snooker player
• August 12 - Jon Olsson, Swedish bathe skier
• August 13 – Shani Davis, American acceleration skater
• August 14 – Larissa Franca, Brazilian bank volleyball player
• August 16 – Joleon Lescott, English footballer
• August 17 – Jon Olsson, Swedish Fresstyle Skier
• August 19 – Willy Denzey, French singer
• August 23 – Natalie Coughlin, American Olympic swimmer
• August 24 – Kim Källström, Swedish footballer
• August 28
  • LeAnn Rimes, American singer
  • Karo Parisyan, Armenian MMA fighter
• August 29 – Vincent Enyeama, Nigerian football goalkeeper
• August 30 – Andy Roddick, American tennis player
• August 31 – José Manuel Reina Páez, Spanish footballer
• September 1 – Jeffrey Buttle, Canadian amount skater
• September 2 – Mandy Cho, Hong Kong actress
• September 5 – Cyndi Wang, Taiwanese accompanist and actress
• September 9 – Ai Otsuka, Japanese singer, songwriter, pianist and actress
• September 11 – Shriya Saran, Indian actress
• September 12 – Nana Ozaki, Japanese gravure idol
• September 13
  • Nenê, Brazilian basketball player
  • Miha Zupan, Slovenian basketball player
• September 18 – Lukas Reimann (Swiss politician)
• September 19 – Nicole Voss, American model
• September 22
  • Kosuke Kitajima, Japanese swimmer
  • Billie Piper, English extra and singer
• September 26 – Betty Sun, Chinese actress
• September 27 – Darrent Williams, Denver Broncos cornerback (d. 2007)
• September 28
  • Emeka Okafor, American basketball player
  • Ranbir Kapoor, Indian actor
• September 29 – Ariana Jollee, American porn extra and director
• September 30
  • Lacey Chabert, American actress
  • Michelle Marsh, British model

October–December

• October 1 – Sandra Oxenryd, Swedish pop singer
• October 3 – Erik von Detten, American actor
• October 6 – MC Lars, American rapper
• October 6 – Levon Aronian, Armenian chess Grandmaster
• October 7
  • Madjid Bougherra, Algerian footballer
  • Jermain Defoe, English footballer
  • Robby Ginepri, American tennis player
• October 9 – Travis Rice, Able Snowboarder
• October 10 – Jason Oost, Dutch footballer
• October 11
  • Salim Stoudamire, American basketball player
  • Valentina Zelyaeva, Russian model
• October 13
  • Ian Thorpe, Australian swimmer
  • Jo Yoon-hee, South Korean extra & model
• October 15
  • Saif Saaeed Shaheen, Qatarian athlete
  • Jessica Rey, American actress
• October 17 – Nick Riewoldt, Australian rules footballer
• October 18 or 19 – Shauntay Henderson, American criminal
• October 21 – Matt Dallas, American actor
• October 22
  • Robinson Canó, Dominican baseball player
  • Heath Miller, American football player
• October 25 – Eman Lam, Hong Kong singer
• October 27 – Dennis Moran, American computer hacker
• October 28 – Anthony Lerew, American baseball player
• October 29 – Ariel Lin, Taiwanese extra and singer
• November 2 – Kyoko Fukada, Japanese actress, archetypal and singer
• November 8
  • Ethan Ruan,a Taiwanese actor
  • Francesco Molinari, Italian golfer
• November 10 – Heather Matarazzo, American actress
• November 11 – Brittny Gastineau, American archetypal and socialite
• November 12 – Anne Hathaway, American actress
• November 12 – Mikele Leigertwood, English footballer
• November 13 – Kumi Koda, Japanese singer
• November 14 – Sailosi Tagicakibau, Samoan rugby player
• November 15 – Joe Kowalewski, American football player
• November 22 – Charlene Choi, Hong Kong accompanist and actress
• November 23 – Asafa Powell, Jamaican sprinter
• November 26 – Karl Henry, Able football player
• November 27 – Aleksandr Kerzhakov, Russian soccer player
• November 29 – Ashley Force, American chase car driver
• November 30
  • Elisha Cuthbert, Canadian actress
  • Clémence Poésy, French actress
• December 3 – Jaycee Chan, Hong Kong amateur and singer
• December 3 – Michael Essien, Ghanaian footballer
• December 4 – Nick Vujicic, administrator of Activity Without Limbs
• December 6 – Ryan Carnes, American actor
• December 6 – Alberto Contador, Spanish cyclist
• December 8 – Jang Ja-yeon, South Korean extra (d. 2009)
• December 13 – Anthony Callea, Australian singer
• December 14 – Anthony Way, British accompanist and actor
• December 16 – Stanislav Sestak, Slovakian footballer
• December 19 – Tero Pitkamaki, Finnish javelin thrower
• December 20 – David Wright, American baseball player
• December 24
  • Robert Carmine, American singer
  • Masaki Aiba, Japanese singer
• December 26 – Aksel Lund Svindal, Norwegian aerial skier
• December 27 – Terji Skibenæs, Faroese guitarist (Týr)
• December 30 – Kristin Kreuk, Canadian actress
• December 31 – Luke Schenscher, Australian basketball player

Deaths

January–March

• January 1 – Victor Buono, American amateur (b. 1938)
• January 5
  • Hans Conreid, American amateur (b. 1917)
  • Harvey Lembeck, American amateur (b. 1923)
• January 8 – Reta Shaw, American extra (b. 1912)
• January 10 – Paul Lynde, American amateur (b. 1926)
• January 13 – Marcel Camus, French blur administrator (b. 1912)
• January 17 – Juan O'Gorman, Mexican Architect (b. 1905)
• January 19 – Elis Regina, Brazilian accompanist (b. 1945)
• January 26 – Mikhail Suslov, Soviet baby-kisser and Politburo affiliate (b. 1902)
• January 30
  • Stanley Holloway, English amateur (b. 1890)
  • Lightnin' Hopkins, American artisan (b. 1912)
• February 4
  • Sue Carol, American extra (b. 1906)
  • Alex Harvey, Scottish artisan (b. 1935)
• February 5 – Neil Aggett, South African activity baton (suicide) (b. 1953)
• February 11
  • Eleanor Powell, American ballerina (b. 1912)
  • Takashi Shimura, Japanese amateur (b. 1905)
• February 12 – Victor Jory, Canadian amateur (b. 1902)
• February 17
  • Thelonious Monk, American applesauce pianist (b. 1917)
  • Lee Strasberg, American amateur and acting drillmaster (b. 1901)
• February 21 – Gershom Scholem, German-born Israeli Jewish philosopher and historian (b. 1897)
• February 24 – Virginia Bruce, American extra (b. 1910)
• March 2 – Philip K. Dick, American columnist (b. 1928)
• March 5 – John Belushi, American amateur (b. 1949)
• March 6 – Ayn Rand, Russian-born columnist (b. 1905)
• March 8 – Rab Butler, British elder (b. 1902)
• March 19 – Randy Rhoads, American guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne (plane crash) (b. 1956)
• March 25 – Goodman Ace, American antic (b. 1899)
• March 27 – Harriet Adams, American biographer (b. 1892)
• March 28 – William Giauque, Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
• March 29 – Carl Orff, German artisan (b. 1895)

April–June

• April 3 – Warren Oates, American amateur (b. 1928)
• April 5 – Abe Fortas, U.S. Supreme Court Amends (b. 1910)
• April 12 – Lenny Baker, American amateur (b. 1945)
• April 15 – Arthur Lowe, British amateur (b. 1915)
• April 20 – Archibald MacLeish, American artisan (b. 1892)
• April 24 – Ville Ritola, Finnish amateur (b. 1896)
• April 25 – Celia Johnson, British extra (b. 1908)
• April 27 – Tom Tully, American amateur (b. 1908)
• May 1 – William Primrose, Scottish violist (b. 1903)
• May 2
  • Helmut Dantine, Austrian amateur (b. 1917)
  • Hugh Marlowe, American amateur (b. 1911)
• May 8 – Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian chase car disciplinarian (racing accident) (b. 1950)
• May 10 – Peter Weiss, German biographer and artisan (b. 1916)
• May 14 – Hugh Beaumont, American amateur (b. 1909)
• May 15 – Gordon Smiley, American chase car disciplinarian (racing accident) (b. 1946)
• May 22 – Cevdet Sunay, ex admiral of Turkey (b. 1899)
• May 28 – Lt Col 'H'. Jones, VC, British soldier (Falklands War) (b. 1940)
• May 29 – Romy Schneider, Austrian extra (cardiac arrest) (b. 1938)
• June 2 – Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Admiral of Pakistan (b. 1904)
• June 6 – Kenneth Rexroth, American artisan (b. 1905)
• June 8 – Satchel Paige, baseball amateur (b. 1906)
• June 10 – Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German blur director, biographer and amateur (b. 1945)
• June 12
  • Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist, almsman of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886)
  • Sgt Ian McKay, VC, British soldier (Falklands War) (b. 1953)
• June 13 – Riccardo Paletti, Italian Formula 1 disciplinarian (b. 1958)
• June 14 – Arthur Coles, Australian agent and philanthropist (b. 1892)
• June 17 – Roberto Calvi, Italian broker (b. 1920)
• June 18 – John Cheever, American biographer and abbreviate adventure biographer (b. 1912)
• June 18 – Curt Jurgens, German amateur (b. 1915)
• June 25 – Edward Hamm, American Olympic amateur (b. 1906)
• June 29 – Henry King, American blur administrator (b. 1886)

July–September

• July 1 – Jacobo Palm, Curaçao built-in artisan (b. 1887)
• July 4 – Terry Higgins, aboriginal British blow of AIDS (b. 1945)
• July 6 – Alma Reville, English biographer (b. 1899)
• July 8
  • Isa Miranda, Italian extra (b. 1905)
  • Albert White, American Olympic diver (b. 1895)
• July 12 – Kenneth More, English amateur (b. 1914)
• July 16 – Patrick Dewaere, French amateur (b. 1947)
• July 19 – John Harvey, date and blur amateur (b. 1911)
• July 21 – Dave Garroway, American television host (b. 1913)
• July 23 – Vic Morrow, American amateur (b. 1929)
• July 28 – Keith Green, American actuality singer, songwriter, and pianist (b. 1953)
• July 29 – Vladimir Zworykin, Russian-born artisan (b. 1889)
• August 2 – Cathleen Nesbitt, English extra (b. 1888)
• August 11 – Tom Drake, American amateur (b. 1918)
• August 12 – Henry Fonda, American amateur (b. 1905)
• August 13 – Charles Walters, American blur administrator (b. 1911)
• August 14 – Patrick Magee, Irish amateur (b. 1922)
• August 15 – Hugo Theorell, Swedish scientist, almsman of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903)
• August 18
  • Beverly Bayne, American extra (b. 1894)
  • Vladek Spiegelman, ancestor of artisan Art Spiegelman and capital character/narrator of Maus (a clear atypical of his activity during the Holocaust) (b. 1906)
• August 20 – Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish extra (b. 1929)
• August 21 – King Sobhuza II of Swaziland, at the time the longest ascendant active autocrat (b. 1899)
• August 23
  • Alberto Cavalcanti, Brazilian blur administrator (b. 1897)
  • Stanford Moore, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
• August 29 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish extra (b. 1915)
• September 2
  • Tom Baker, American amateur (b. 1940)
  • Jay Novello, American amateur (b. 1904)
• September 5 – Douglas Bader, Inspirational baton of the Battle of Britain (b. 1910)
• September 11 – Wifredo Lam, Cuban artisan (b. 1902)
• September 14
  • Bashir Gemayel, President-elect of Lebanon (b. 1947)
  • Grace Kelly, American extra and Princess of Monaco (b. 1929)
• September 16 – Rolfe Sedan, American amateur (b. 1896)
• September 21 – Hovhannes Bagramyan, Soviet Armenian aggressive administrator and Marshal of the Soviet Abutment (b. 1897)
• September 23 – Jimmy Wakely, American Country-Western accompanist and amateur (b. 1914)
• September 28 – Mabel Albertson, American extra (b. 1901)

October–December

• October 3 – Vivien Merchant, British extra (b. 1929)
• October 4 – Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (b. 1932)
• October 8
  • Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, Canadian-born accord activist, almsman of the Nobel Accord Prize (b. 1889)
  • Fernando Lamas, Argentine-born amateur (b. 1915)
• October 9 – Anna Freud, Austrian psychoanalyst (b. 1895)
• October 10 – Jean Effel, French painter and announcer (b. 1908)
• October 16 – Hans Selye, Canadian endocrinologist (b. 1907)
• October 18
  • Bess Truman, Aboriginal Lady of the United States (b. 1885)
  • Dwain Esper, administrator (b. 1892)
• October 18 – Pierre Mendès France, Prime Abbot of France (b. 1907)
• October 22 – Savitri Devi, French-born biographer and philosopher (b. 1905)
• November 1
  • James Broderick, American amateur (b. 1927)
  • King Vidor, American blur administrator (b. 1894)
• November 4 – Dominique Dunne, American extra (b. 1959)
• November 5 – Jacques Tati, French filmmaker (b. 1907)
• November 10 – Leonid Brezhnev, Baton of the Soviet Abutment (b. 1906)
• November 12 – Dorothy Round Little, English tennis best (b. 1908)
• November 15 – Vinoba Bhave, Indian drillmaster (b. 1895)
• November 17 – Ruth Donnelly, American extra (b. 1896)
• November 21 – Lee Patrick, American extra (b. 1901)
• November 22 – Jean Batten, New Zealand aviator (b. 1909)
• November 23 – Grady Nutt, American antic (b. 1934)
• November 25 – Hugh Harman, animation animator (b. 1903)
• November 26 – Juhan Aavik, Estonian artisan (b. 1884)
• November 29 – Percy Williams, Canadian amateur (b. 1908)
• December 2 – Marty Feldman, British amateur and biographer (b. 1934)
• December 7 – Will Lee, American amateur who played Mr. Hooper on Sesame Street (b. 1908)
• December 8 – Marty Robbins, American accompanist (b. 1925)
• December 10 – Freeman Fisher Gosden, American amateur (b. 1899)
• December 16 – Colin Chapman, British designer, inventor, and architect in the automotive industry (b. 1928)
• December 20 – Artur Rubinstein, Polish-born pianist and aqueduct (b. 1887)
• December 23 – Jack Webb, American amateur (b. 1920)
• December 24 – Louis Aragon, French biographer (b. 1897)
• December 27 – John Swigert, American astronaut (b. 1931)

Fields Medalists

• Alain Connes, William Thurston, Shing-Tung Yau

Nobel Prizes

• Physics – Kenneth G. Wilson
• Chemistry – Aaron Klug
• Medicine – Sune K. Bergström, Bengt I. Samuelsson, John R. Vane
• Literature – Gabriel García Márquez
• Peace – Alva Myrdal, Alfonso García Robles
• Economics – George Stigler

Templeton Prize

• Billy Graham

Notes

1. ^ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE3DF1731F935A15753C1A964958260
2. ^ Clarence Tsui, South China Morning Post, 12/12/99, webpage: ITobacco330.

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